"Bedaŭrinde, mi devas ekiri."

Translation: Unfortunately I have to get going.

[JoeJScott]

unfortunately is literally "sorry-worthy", love it.

[conor.bassoon]

Is ekiri more "start going" like start leaving a party and saying goodbye to everyone, or "Unfortunately, I need to start going to class". The ek makes me think ekster so more in line with the first one.

[rapn21]

The first one. The ek prefix means to start to do something or to suddenly do something.

[GEOvanneGEO]

So ekmangi would mean to start eating?

[errant1]

Yes, ekmanĝi means to start eating.

[andrewgtreantos]

Eki (to start) + iri (to go) = ekiri (to get going)

[Nootmuzkaatje]

Isn't it more common to say "I have to get going"?

[jkirby101]

It accepts that answer, it's the one I used.

[JamesTWils]

Isn't "ekiri" "to go out"? I would have thought "to go" would be "iri."

[rapn21]

No to go out is eliri.

[BrianLokker]

I translated it that way too.

[JamesTWils]

Yeah, now that I have done the rest of the lesson, I realize that we were misled by our acquaintance with Latin. Usually, it is safe to assume that Mr Zamenhof pinched his Esperanto words from Latin (or English), but not here, I guess.

[poltomin]

Dr Zamenhof did take a lot (though by no means everything) from Latin, sometimes using slightly different forms in order to create distinctions which Latin lacked.

[EaterofPumkin]

Ekiri, kinda like 'shove off'?

[LiKenun]

I find it interesting how the syllables boundaries are selected for ekiri. I expected [e.ki.ri], but the speaker pronounces it [ek.i.ri].